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H. S. KHATZ.

SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED IuLv I9, IQI-I.

Patented June 10, l9l9.

Y WITNESSES HENRY S. KRATZ, 0F DANBORQ, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pgtdjgnygq Jura@ fili), 1919.

Application med July 19, 1917. serial No. 181,633.

To all '107mm 'it may concern:

Be it known that 1 HENRY S. KRATZ, a citizen or' the United States, anda resident .of Danboro, in the county of Bucks and State ofPennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Shirts, of which theollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shirts, and it consists in thecombinations, constructions and arrangements herein described andclaimed.

An object of my invention is to provide a shirt which is comparativelysimple in construction, and which` is so constructed that it will notbunch about the hips and thighs.

A further object of my invention is to provide a shirt so constructedthat the sides are free to hang in extended position in the trousers.

A. further object of my invention is to provide a shirt having tailportions which are not inclined to work upwardly.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification,and the novel features of the invention will be particu.- larly pointedout in the appended claim.

y invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming partofthis application, in Which- Figure l is a. view showing the shirt inposition on the body of the wearer.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a. perspective view of the shirt looking from the front. v

In carrying out my invention provide a -main body portion 1 havingsleeves 2 and a neck band 3, the body portion, sleeves, and neck bandbeing of the usual construction. As will be'seen from the drawings thebody portion does not have the usual side slits but is provided withfront slits 4 and 5 and with rear slits 6 and 7. The portion 8 betweenthe front slits 4 and 5 forms a ap 'while the portion 9 between the rearslits 6 and 7 also forms a dap of the same length and width as the flap8. The Hap 8 is provided with button holes 11. 4

From the foregoing description of the various parts of the device theoperation thereof may be readily understood.

' The shirt may be open in front, as shown at l2, or at the rear, inorder to get the garment over the head. When the shirt is in positionthe flap 8 isbrought to the rear and the rlap 9 is brought forwardly andbuttoned to the flap 8 in the manner shown in Fig. 2. This removes theseparts out of the way and permits the sides of the shirt to conform tothe hips and thighs, that is to say to hang down in a natural position,as shown inl Fig. 1, thus obviating bunching of the garment Within thetrousers.

A shirt made in accordance with my in,- vention does not have thetendency to come up, because of the fact that it is not hunched.Furthermore, the flaps 8 and 9 tend to keep the garment in position.

I claim:

As an article of manufacture, a shirt having a body portion withcontinuous side portions and provided at its front with a pair ofupwardly extending slits and at its rear with a corresponding pair ofupwardly extending slits, the portion between the slits of each pairconstituting flaps, whose lower edges when released coincide with thelower edges of the continuous side, and which flaps may be overlappedand secured together, and when so secured will lie substantially abovelthe lower portions of the continuous sides, such lower portions of thecontinuous sides being substantially longer than the flaps whenoverlapped and terminating in the same line with the lower end of theflaps when the latter are pendent, the side portions thus operating tostay the garment in position when the flaps are' overlapped and securedtogether in use, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY S. KRATZ.

Witnesses HIRAM H. KELLER, MARY KELLER FLUCK.

